auntness

English

Etymology

aunt +‎ -ness

Noun

auntness (uncountable)

1. (rare) the state of being an aunt.
   • 1957, Manabendra Nath Roy, Fragments of a Prisoner's Diary: Crime and karma, cats and women:

     An aunt may be young, ridiculously so, as a body; but as a soul, that is, as her real self, she must enjoy the full privilege of auntness.

   • 2009, Pam Brodowsky, Evelyn Fazio, Staying Sane When You're Going Through Menopause:

     When I wasn't completely creeped out by this sudden switch-off of normal auntness, I'd ask my mom what was going on.

   • 2013, E. Dawson Varughese, Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English, page 104:

     Her auntness is accidental. The accident is my father who recently, and for reasons both private and worrying, reclaimed this extremely peripheral twig of the family tree' (Swaminathan 2006, pp. 2—3).

Synonyms

• auntdom
• aunthood